Ŏr'/di-nā'tion, n.

n. [Lat. ordinatio, Fr. ordination, Pr. ordinatio, Sp. ordenación, It. ordinazione.]

1. The act of ordaining.
2. Especially, the act of setting apart to an office of the Christian ministry.
3. The state of being ordained or appointed; tendency.

Virtue and vice have a natural ordination to the happiness and misery of life respectively. Norris. 4. The act of disposing, or the state of being disposed or arranged, in regular order. [Rare.] Cyrus disposed his trees, like his armies, in regular ordination. Browne.